PAETEC COMMUNICATIONS BECOMES INTERNET2
CORPORATE MEMBER
Fairport, NY,
communications provider, today announced that
it has become a corporate
member of Internet2(R). Internet2 is a consortium led by over 200
universities working in partnership with
industry and government leaders to
develop and deploy advanced network
applications and technologies, in order
to help accelerate Internet development.
Internet2's primary objectives include: creating
a leading edge network
capability for the national research
community; enabling revolutionary
Internet applications; and ensuring the rapid
transfer of new network
services and applications to the broader
Internet community.
According to Rick Cunningham, PAETEC's vice
president of strategic markets,
"We look forward to the role PAETEC can
play in assisting Internet2 in
achieving its strategic objectives. We believe that Internet2 plays a
critical role in furthering the educational
opportunities, research and
network applications needs of the next
generation of the Internet, and we
are excited and proud to be part of the
process. The first pilot program,
an initiative to develop VoIP technology as a
disaster recovery
alternative, is very promising."
demonstrate the provisioning of an emergency
IP voice service in the event
conventional communications on the
university's campus become inoperable or
congested.
This system is SIP-based and the system design provides inbound
and outbound disaster recovery voice service
in the event of CO, node, or
gateway failures.
"Internet2 is excited about PAETEC's
membership and involvement," says Ben
Teitelbaum, program manager for Internet2's
voice and integrated
communications initiatives. "As we look
at voice survivability
architectures that combined the best
properties of Internet telephony with
those of the circuit-switched voice network,
it is invaluable to have
PAETEC at the table. Their high-level of engineering
professionalism and
experience as a leading provider of voice
services to higher education,
provides a unique perspective."
About PATEC Communications
Based in Fairport, NY, PAETEC Communications,
Inc. is an integrated
communications provider offering broadband
services, including advanced
voice and video, enhanced data, and
communications management services to
medium-sized and large businesses, colleges
and universities, hospitals,
hotels, governmental organizations and
affinity groups. PAETEC serves
customers in 27 markets, including:
Hampshire,
over 975 employees. For further information, please visit the
PAETEC
website at http://www.paetec.com.
About Internet2(R)
Led by more than 200
government, Internet2 is developing and
deploying advanced network
applications and technologies for research
and higher education,
accelerating the creation of tomorrow's
Internet. Internet2 recreates the
partnerships among academia, industry and
government that helped foster
today's Internet in its infancy. For more information, visit:
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Contacts: Rick Cunningham, vice president,
strategic markets, PAETEC
Communications, Inc., 734-975-8020
Michelle Pollak, media
relations manager, Internet2,
202-331-5345
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